Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-08
DAILY HERALD
THE CHAUTAUQUA.
Memorial Day---An Interesting
PrOgra mme Rendered.

OllhO " Il a u ON
Memorial Day---An Interesting
Progra mme Rendered.
Approaching the Tabernacle on Sat
urday night there might have been
:. seen long row of Japanese lanterns
pendant from the trees in front, night
in its early shade lending its darkness
to beautify the scene. Entering they
hung in greater profusion of different
sizes and colors tastefully arranged by
Wilson Bros, of Los Angeles, manu-
facturers of pyrotechnics.
On the stage were seated Rev. Drs.
Ostrander, Bovard, Thomson, Weller,
Hough, Pendleton and the Superin-
tendent of instruction, Rev. S. J..
Fleming. Also Professor King. In
the rear sat the graduating class
faculty of the summer college, musl,
clans and trustees and directors of the
Assembly. After singing and re-
sponsive reading DIR. Bovard led in
prayer. When DIR. Ostrander was in
troduced he IKE about ten minutes
with his usual felicity. After a vocal
quartette selection was rendered by
the Misses Whitehorn and Adams and
Messrs. King and Bailey, Rev. Ed
ward Thomson, LID, Nice-Presi-
dent of the University of Southern
California, delivered the address to
the graduating class as follows:
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATES.
Before the diplomas shall be placed
in your hands, it may be appropriate
to say few words OF congratulation
and suggestion. You are to be con-
graduated that amid your other duties
you have found so much time for
study, and that you have passed
creditably all the examinations re-
quired in the excellent Chautauqua
course.
Allow me to suggest:
I.-That YOU continue in your pur-
suit OF knowledge-Progress is the
highest law of life, and should be
illustrated in the history of every
rational creature. Extend your re-
searches into all the fields of knowl-
edge. This should be but the COM
mencement day # your education.
Your mental faculties have been de-
veicped in a measure by the curric-
ulum you have just completed. You
have learned how to study. You
have mastered the rudiments of the
different sciences. You have the key
to the palace of knowledge. Enter its
door, pass through its halls, behold
its tables loaded with luxuries, its
walls garnished with paintings, its
inches filled with statues, its atmos-
phere fragrant with the aroma Of
spices and fairest flowers. Enjoy all
its treasures: revel in its glories.
The demand of the age is such that
we must be perpetual students-ever
reading, thinking, learning. What
ever may be the character OF your
business or the nature of your do
mestic cares, you should be growing
scholars; developing your mental
powers more and more each year.
And, no matter what may be your
station, by proper economy of time,
you may accumulate vast deal of
information in a few years. Just as
you should fix upon regular times in
the day as periods OF devotion, so
certain hours ought to be sacred to
systematic study. Examine the re-
cent theories, catch the fresh thoughts,
grasp the bright ideas of the latest
works, particularly those in your own
language. Thus, though you may not
a,ccome specialists, you can be superior
general scholars.
U.-Use what you have acquired
knowledge unused loses its bright
ness and becomes tarnished; but fire.
quently communicated,s cit is better re-
tanned. Yet it should be used with
prudence. The wise man usually
talks but little, yet his words are well
chosen-coined from the mint Of sober
thought.
1t is an easy thing to become great
talker. But the most fluent are gen.
orally the emptiest. 1t is good rule
never to attempt to talk on a subject
of which you know nothing. Never
try to express thought that you have
not clearly conceived.
Better to be esteemed dull from lack
of readiness in utterance, than to
prove yourself a fool by loose and
superficial conversation. Be careful
in the use of words when the impulses
are aroused.
II your life amounts to much you
will have enemies. Jealousy and 9TH
or forms of human depravity will
spring up in the minds of your rivals
and ambitious associates. They will
misrepresent and slander you, under
rate your abilities, talk and work
against you.
Now yon will feel like scathing them
as with rod of iron. But it is the
best policy not to do it. DIR. Lyman
Beecher once endeavored to drive a
polecat from his yard, and threw
nearly whole encyclopedia at him.
But he got the worst OF the bargain.
Time, the great rectifier, will make
all things right, and cause us to stand
out in our proper colors. Don't use
your learnin9 as Dean Swift did his,
in burning sarcasm and whitening re-
buke; but rather in gentleness and
sweetness let your knowledge make
you more saintlike and lovely.
Ill. Live a life of energy. If you
look into the history of the past, or
glance merely at the present, we shall
see that energy is one of the greatest
elements of successful career. Those
warriors who led their mighty legions
over Alpine submits and burning
sands, those orators whose heaven
touched tongues have trumpeted the
notes OF liberty and truth, those great
reformers and blessed martyrs who
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